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The Vermont Community Foundation announced that Liz Gamache, Chelsea Bardot Lewis, and Kevin Wiberg will join the organization’s grants and community investments department, which is responsible for overseeing the programs that distribute grants and mission-related investments throughout the state.

The Lake Champlain Community Sailing Center (CSC), a nonprofit with a mission to provide community access to Lake Champlain, today announced Owen Milne as the new Executive Director of the organization.

Vermont Youth Conservation Corps (VYCC) is pleased to announce the addition of two new members of its Board of Trustees; Anne Adler of Stowe, and Benjamin Eastman of Huntington. Anne and Ben will join the rest of VYCC’s board in providing strategic direction for the organization, and serve in the invaluable capacity as VYCC ambassadors throughout Vermont and beyond.

Okemo Mountain Resort welcomes Ashley Elicker as its new director of culinary services. She will oversee all aspects of the resort’s culinary operations on a year-round basis. Originally from New Canaan, Conn, Elicker graduated from Middlebury College, in Vermont. She earned her MBA from the University of Virginia and completed the French Culinary Institute’s Classic Culinary Arts Program.

Vermont Farmers Food Center added two members to its Board of Directors: Jody Condon serves as Controller for Castleton University and Joshua MacDuff is a small-diversified farm advocate that uses this drive daily in his Farm Insurance Producer role with local agency, Kinney Pike Insurance.

Inntopia is proud to announce the recent hiring of Terry Trail as Product Manager. Originally from New Hampshire, Terry has lived in Boston for the past decade where she worked at various software companies, including Runkeeper, LevelUp, and Bullhorn, Inc.

Michael Ly has been named to Intuit Inc’s (Nasdaq: INTU) Accountant and Advisor Customer Council. Intuit creates business and financial management solutions that simplify the business of life for small businesses, consumers and accounting professionals.

A student who is passionate about cleaning up St Albans Bay, Vermont, and restoring it to a place of beauty will get a head start on her dream—with an all expense paid scholarship to the nation's number-one college for sustainability-based education, Green Mountain College.

Christopher C Shaddock Jr has been named the Director of Business Development for the Rutland Region Chamber of Commerce.

Colonel Matthew T Birmingham, Director of the Vermont State Police, is pleased to announce the following promotion: effective May 14, 2017, Detective Sergeant Thomas Mozzer, Diversion Investigator with the Narcotics Investigation Unit (NIU) based at Headquarters in Waterbury, is promoted to Lieutenant, Station Commander at the Shaftsbury Field Station.

ANEW Place is pleased to announce that its Board of Directors has appointed Kevin Pounds as Executive Director.

Susan A Reeves, EdD, RN, dean of Colby-Sawyer College’s School of Nursing and Public Health, has been named Chief Nursing Executive for Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health (D-H), effective June 19. In her new role, Reeves will be responsible for setting the strategic direction for nursing across the D-H system and for creating alignment for nursing practice across all D-H entities.